Honda Accord - Cog (2003) - 2:00 (UK)

Voice: Garrison Keillor - "Isn't it nice when things just work?"
Trivia: "The full advert is divided in two - because the studio couldn't fit in all the kit at once. Just one second of computer generation is used to link the two halves - when an exhaust pipe rolls across the floor." - Michael Christie, Daily Record

there's 'contraweights' in them... Like little metal balls that also roll, this making the rolling effect... eh.. "Rollier". :) Seriously. Ballbearings... is that the word I'm looking for?

The sounds are great, and that window-opening bit is a great 'cliffhanger'. Can you imagine how sick of the line "isn't it nice how things just ..work" the team behind this must have gotten after 606 takes?

Anyone growing up in England in the 1970's as I did will be troubled by the inescapeable similarity this spot has to an Open University programme about kinetic power and motion. This Honda commercial mimicked the idea in that programme, subsitituting the various components with automotive parts. I wonder how many people marvel at this film without realising it is not original but a blatant copy.